What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a low semicircular ridge and stone fence still mark the boundary of an oval enclosure now hidden inside a rectangular field. The ground slopes gently toward the Trimoge River, suggesting the fort once stood on a slight rise above boggy pasture. Its disappearance from later maps does not erase the shape preserved in soil and stone, nor the possibility that people lived, worked or worshipped there before the field swallowed the memory.

Utilises a rise in an area of undulating average and boggy pasture. Ground rises gently to S−SW and falls gently for c. 120m to the banks of the Trimoge River. This rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval embanked enclosure (diam. 35m E−W; c. 30m N−S); on the 25-inch plan it is shown tightly enclosed within a subrectangular field plot, with a trackway leading off it to N, and by the time of the 1931 OS 6-inch edition, the subrectangular field plot is shown but not the rath. The subrectangular walled field plot is extant, and slight remains of the levelled rath (c. 39m W−E; c. 28m N−S) can still be seen within the enclosed space. A low semicircular undulation curving N−SW preserves the E half of the rath perimeter. The W arc of the rath appears to be subsumed into an earth and stone field fence (Wth 1.2m; H 0.8-1m) which defines the W side of the field plot. There is a slight slope down from centre to S in the interior. Another rath (MA071-180----) is located 180m to S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 September 2021

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